Discusses nine assessment issues that are grouped into three major areas: assessing the decision to pursue Business Process Reengineering (BPR), focuses on strategic & general management issues that need to be resolved before an organization embarks on a BPR project. Assessing the new process' development picks up at the point where the organization has decided to begin a BPR project. It focuses on the management of the BPR team, the team's process redesign activities, & the business case it develops. Assessing project implementation & results deals with the problems involved in piloting & deploying a new BPR. Glossary & bibliography.

Examines the Dept. of Energy's (DoE) acquisition and use of supercomputers. Specifically, it (1) identifies the number and cost of the supercomputers DoE acquired in FY1994 through 1997 and the number and proposed funding for planned major supercomputer acquisitions in FY1998 through 2000; (2) determines the stated need for DoE's supercomputers, the utilization rates for them, and the potential for facilities to share these resources; and (3) identifies and describes the process DoE and its contractors employ to validate the need for additional supercomputers and contrasts that process with the technology investment process in the Clinger-Cohen Act.